I can't find benchmarks for the actual devices, but I tried to find something comparable. The Galaxy S4 appears to use the same CPU as the FireTV (the S4 is eve

I can't find benchmarks for the actual devices, but I tried to find something comparable. The Galaxy S4 appears to use the same CPU as the FireTV (the S4 is even clocked slightly higher), and the iPhone 6 Plus has the same CPU as the new Apple TV (though the iPhone is clocked at 1400MHz vs the AppleTV's 1800MHz). Here's the Geekbench benchmark: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/compare/4955785?baseline=4887503 http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/compare/4955785?ba... Basically the A8 uses less power and is much faster in almost every case. It has a ton more fill-rate as well, which means short of a console, it's probably the most powerful setup graphically by a good margin currently. They have the same amount of RAM. I'm a fan of Amazon Video. I think in most ways their app interfaces generally beat Apple's. They appear to incrementally improve routinely where you're probably lucky to get a significant AppleTV interface improvement once a year (I don't hold out much hope for Apple fixing the keyboard, and I don't consider the recent Bluetooth keyboard support addition much improvement). Anyways, the Qualcomm/nVidia vs Apple Ax series seems very much like AMD vs Intel to me. For a casual observer like myself, the Apple processors seem to pretty much always be the most energy efficient, and provide significantly more performance at the same time. So if cores and clock speed are the most important thing to you, you buy the Qualcomm or AMD (well, not cores so much, but work with me) CPU. But if you want the best performance with the most efficiency, you buy the Apple or Intel solution. That's just my theory anyways.